Associated PressOne of the many marquee matchups in Saturday's SEC Championship game will be Alabama receiver Julio Jones against Florida cornerback Joe Haden, a Thorpe Award finalist.Florida cornerback Joe Haden, who will likely see a lot of Alabama receiver Julio Jones in Saturday's SEC Championship game, said he and the Gators' other corner, Janoris Jenkins, plan to get up close and physical with Jones.

"Julio is a big, strong guy," Haden said in a Monday teleconference, adding that he'll likely draw the assignment of covering Jones when the Tide receiver lines up on the short side of the field. "What I'm going to try to to is get my hands on him and throw off his timing, try to keep him off his routes a little bit."

Though Jones' numbers -- 40 catches for 545 yards and four TDs -- are down from last year, he still commands a secondary's attention. So much so that Haden, a finalist for the Thorpe Award along with Tennessee's Eric Berry and Texas' Earl Thomas, said Monday that he had not yet begun his film study of Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy.